Theo Ubique artistic director Fred Anzevino and musical director Jeremy Ramey, who teamed up for the company's Jeff-award Best Musical winner The Light in the Piazza as well as Aspects of Love and Master Class, are collaborating on this collection of songs by the German born classical composer-turned-Broadway-songsmith Kurt Weill. Ramey is providing exciting new arrangements as well as musical direction. Christie Kerr is also on the team as choreographer for the cabaret to be performed at the No Exit Cafe, 6970 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago, from tonight, September 19 to October 19, 2014. (more...)

Theo Ubique artistic director Fred Anzevino and musical director Jeremy Ramey, who teamed up for the company's Jeff-award Best Musical winner The Light in the Piazza as well as Aspects of Love and Master Class, are collaborating on this collection of songs by the German born classical composer-turned-Broadway-songsmith Kurt Weill, running tonight, September 19 to October 19, 2014. (more...)

Stage and screen star Alan Cumming, who is currently starring in Broadway's Cabaret, recently took a brief break from the show to campaign for a cause he has always been vocal about- Scottish independence. In today's New York Times, Cumming speaks out in his own op-ed about the issue. He writes: (more...)

Women and men across the country have been searching for a way to slim, tighten, and tone their body shape without a cosmetic surgery procedure like liposuction or without the cost, time or discomfort seen with coolsculpting, radio frequency or liposonix. While hundreds of products are on the market claiming to do just that, a new technology that produces measurable results based on science has just been introduced in the Coachella Valley, California at Desert Health & Wellness (www.SlimBodyXpress.com).
This new technology, SlimBodyXpress, is a combination of two FDA approved therapies - infrared therapy and Cellulite EMS that delivers completely noninvasive fat removal, inch loss and cellulite reduction as well as toning, firming and tightening.
'The word 'revolutionary' gets thrown around a lot in the field of aesthetic medicine, especially in the context of laser and light-based treatments,' notes Dr. Ron Ristaino, DC, founder of Desert Health & Wellness. 'But after carefully reviewing the scientific studies and available literature, and seeing the system in action, I can wholeheartedly say that SlimBodyXpress is a revolutionary treatment for my patients who want to enhance their body shape without going under The Knife.'
In their clinical studies, patients receiving SlimBodyXpress, on average lost up to 16 inches and up to 6 clothing sizes in a very short period of time.
The science behind this Coachella Valley body contouring technique is sound,' says Dr. Ron Ristaino. 'It may be hard for some people to believe, but science is now able to shape the body without surgery, without a strict diet, and without a rigorous exercise routine. The procedure requires no anesthesia or incisions, and within less than an hour in most cases your treatment session will be finished and you'll be able to carry on with your day.'
The SlimBodyXpress device causes the formation of what is called a 'transitory pore' in the membrane of a fat cell. Through this pore, fat from the cell is released into the body, where it is safely carried away by the body's own natural cleansing process. Surgical extraction of the fat is not required.
'Because there's no need to break up and suction out the fat cells, as with a traditional liposuction procedure, aftereffects like swelling, bruising, and temporary soreness in the treated areas are eliminated,' says Dr. Ristaino. 'A series of treatments is required over several weeks, but patients are finding that this time commitment is a small sacrifice for the long-term body contouring benefits the treatment can provide.'
At Desert Health & Wellness (www.SlimBodyXpress), Dr. Ron Ristaino and staff offer innovative body contouring techniques. They also perform other popular non-invasive procedures including non-invasive microcurrent facelifts.
About SlimBodyXpress
SlimBodyXpress is a unique total body system, developed for the medical, health and wellness industry. In a relatively short time, the SlimBodyXpress Non-Invasive System is becoming incredibly sought after and respected not only in spas around the globe, but also in medical offices, salons, and wellness centers. (more...)

Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, announced today that the late Polish cinematographer Jerzy Lipman will be celebrated at this year's Festival as part of the special “Remembering the Masters” series. (more...)

Be sure to tune in for this week's 'LIVE with Kelly and Michael,' when hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan sit down with another seasoned Broadway veteran. Cabaret star ALAN CUMMING stops by today, October 8, 2014 to discuss his memoir, 'Not My Father's Son.' (more...)

We're at that point in the season, folks, when things on INTRUDERS are starting to piece themselves together. Next week's episode is the finale (how can this be?!) and the veil hiding Qui Reverti is slowly being lifted. More than plot progression, though, there's some serious character development going on this week, and it's awesome. All these developments can be a lot to handle, though. I get it. But the creative team has faith in us to follow along, and I have faith in us, too! Just in case things have gotten a little jumbled, let's break this thing down, character by character. (more...)

Last March, AMC announced that it has hired directors for its 'Knifeman' and 'Galyntine' pilots, both of which will be produced by AMC Studios in 2014 for consideration for series for 2015. Today, Variety reports that AMC will not give series orders to the two drama pilots. (more...)

The notion of 'really useful knowledge' was originated from the workers' awareness of the need for self-education in the early 19th century. In the 1820s and 1830s, workers' organizations in United Kingdom introduced this phrase to describe 'unpractical' knowledge like politics, economics and philosophy, as opposed to what factory owners proclaimed to be “useful knowledge”. Some time earlier capitalists began investing in advancement of their businesses through funding the education of workers in 'applicable' skills and disciplines such as engineering, physics, chemistry or math. (more...)

Regardless of your opinion about the Affordable Care Act, you might be interested to know how paying for healthcare started and the reluctant role played by surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital. Set primarily in Hartford and Boston, ETHER DOME has special significance for the local audience, offering both a history lesson and theatrical entertainment of the highest order. (more...)

Food Network decks the halls this December with seasonal specials, holiday-themed episodes and an epic finale! Ree Drummond kicks off the party with The Pioneer Woman Cowboy Christmas premiering Saturday, December 6th at 8pm, when she and her family host a big frontier-style potluck and dance on the ranch for their friends. (more...)

Actor Randy Harrison, best known for playing Justin Taylor in Showtime's Queer as Folk (2000-2005) is rehearsing Amadeus Mozart for the play Amadeus to bow in Santa Barbara at the Ensemble Theatre on October 11. In our chat he talks about the play, his role, his tastes in music, as well as a bit about Queer as Folk.
What was life like, briefly, during Queer As Folk? Did you know at first that this show was unique and groundbreaking? You guys had so many fans. I know because I interviewed Gale Harold when he did Orpheus Descending a few years ago, and the fan response to the interview was incredible. I had comments from all over the world. (more...)

Standards made wildly popular by the great male nightclub singers of the 1950s—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Darin and others—electrify the concert hall for the opening of Pacific Symphony's 2014-15 Pops Season. This high-energy show features award-winning vocalist Michael Andrew, who was praised on Larry King Live, “as one of the great singers of all time.” Andrew headlined the world-famous Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center for two years as its main singer and bandleader. He was also the band leader and singer for Merv Griffin's “Coconut Club” at The Beverly Hilton before creating his hit musical comedy, “Mickey Swingerhead and The Earthgirls” and the 18-piece Atomic Big Band featured in the film “Poseidon.” Now taking orchestras by storm in cities across America, Andrew joins the Symphony, led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman, to recall the “good old days” when music was swinging, jazzy and always came with a Big Band. (more...)

Standards made wildly popular by the great male nightclub singers of the 1950s—Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bobby Darin and others—electrify the concert hall for the opening of Pacific Symphony's 2014-15 Pops Season. This high-energy show features award-winning vocalist Michael Andrew, who was praised on Larry King Live, “as one of the great singers of all time.” Andrew headlined the world-famous Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center for two years as its main singer and bandleader. He was also the band leader and singer for Merv Griffin's “Coconut Club” at The Beverly Hilton before creating his hit musical comedy, “Mickey Swingerhead and The Earthgirls” and the 18-piece Atomic Big Band featured in the film “Poseidon.” Now taking orchestras by storm in cities across America, Andrew joins the Symphony, led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman, to recall the “good old days” when music was swinging, jazzy and always came with a Big Band. (more...)

Jump 2 minutes in to watch Sting perform with the cast of THE LAST SHIP! Sting will return to the Broadway stage as a performer when he steps into the role of Jackie White in the acclaimed new musical THE LAST SHIP, for which he made his Broadway debut as a composer earlier this season. Sting will assume the role beginning December 9 for four weeks through January 10, 2015 at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 W. 52 St). (more...)

After making the announcement, both Sting and lead producer Jeffrey Seller sat down with BroadwayWorld.com's Richie Ridge to give us the full scoop on how this came about, what to expect & more! (more...)

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We may be a week away until the festive American holiday, but this week's episode of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, entitled 'Fade Into You,' was all about Thanksgiving, or should I say Friendsgiving since none of the characters on the show that still have alive and breathing human family members could celebrate with them because of that pesky border situation. Or their family just didn't feel like taking the drive to Whitmore. (more...)

With Oliver (Stephen Amell) still presumed dead, Diggle (David Ramsey) and Roy (aka Arsenal, played by Colton Haynes) try to convince Laurel (Katie Cassidy) to give up her vigilante ways as the Black Canary. Let's keep our focus on the target on get you caught up on tonight's ARROW, 'Midnight City.' (more...)

Led by guest conductor Donato Cabrera and featuring guest pianist Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini, this concert offers not only Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the all-time classic synthesis of Carnegie Hall and Tin Pan Alley, but two more pieces with similar flavors from Gershwin's fellow American, George Antheil. (more...)

Steve Lippia is a singer's singer. He has quickly become one of this country's most prominent vocalists and interpreters of Classic pop music. A birthday celebration 100 years in the making comes to the State Theatre with Steve Lippia's Centennial Sinatra on Friday, February 20th. (more...)

In THE PARTNERSHIP (Doubleday/Nan A. Talese), Pamela Katz vividly portrays the tempestuous collaboration between the renegade poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, and the gifted composer, Kurt Weill. They were the geniuses who created the theatrical and musical masterworks The Threepenny Opera and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny amid the most turbulent years of the twentieth century. Unfolding within a broken society struggling to cope with what has passed-the Great War-and the Nazi threat to come, Katz's intimate portrait not only illuminates Brecht and Weill's volatile creative process, but also the spectacular Weimar Republic, the last burst of freedom before the darkness. (more...)

Victoria+Jean 'Firecracker' moves at the pace of an electric rollin' stone. In this case, the stones are 550 marbles 'creating geometric shapes and paths, blasting light through their glassy bodies, and even shaving some of them down into powder' to take 'an everyday object and uses it to summon dazzling colors, fervent energy, and explosions of light.' (more...)

The Ustinov Studio, Bath has announced the cast for the first production in its spring 2015 season, the UK premiere of Pavel Pryazhko's wickedly funny comedy, THE HARVEST, directed by Michael Boyd. (more...)

Karen Lynn Gorney, star of the movie "Saturday Night Fever" and "All My Children" joins the cast as Eyphah in Under The Knife: A Farce, a brand new comedy by Peter Zachari premiering at Theater for the New City in March. Gorney is joined by Peter Zachari as Roe, Lori Funk as Marcia/Deidre, Joey Mirabile as Budd, Itanza Wooden as Cora, Scott Ahearn as Roy, Katelyn Collins as Bernadette and Brian A. Simmons as Shadow. (more...)

On Saturday, March 21, Music Director LARRY RACHLEFF and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra welcome mezzo-soprano SUSAN LORETTE DUNN back to The VETS for a performance of Kurt Weill's Cabaret Songs. The concert program also features Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances and Dvo?ák's Carnival Overture. Jane S. Nelson is Concert Sponsor. Tickets (starting at $15) are available at tickets.riphil.org, and the RIPO box office at 401.248.7000. (more...)

From Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill made its journey to the Kansas City theater scene with the opening Saturday night February 14 at the White Theatre located at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. The White Theatre celebrates two first on their stage with Paul Hough directing the debut of From Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill and the first time the musical appeared at the theater. Hough directed the play in Los Angeles in 1985, winning the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Production and Direction. Hough was Director of Production for the American Heartland Theatre from 1996 until it closed its doors in 2013. (more...)

New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre," closes its 24th season of adult, alternative musical theatre in June with one of the masterpieces of the art form, the darkly satiric THREEPENNY OPERA (which isn't really an opera), running May 28-June 20, 2015. (more...)

Celebrating talented new voices in screenwriting, the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest officially announced its top award winners. A complete list of the 2014 winners and official finalists can be viewed on the contest's website https://beverlyhillsscreenplaycontest.com (more...)

MSG Network has announced that its original series "Four Courses with J.B. Smoove," starring comedian and actor J.B. Smoove, will return for a third season with 10 all-new episodes premiering Monday, January 19, 2015. (more...)

BroadwayWorld.com's Richie Ridge was on hand at PETER PAN's press day where he talked to the stars and creative team about how they are putting together this live TV event. Here, Richie talks to Allison Williams. (more...)

On the heels of the 16-time Grammy Award winner's sold-out, standing-room-only debut performance on Tuesday night, December 9, Sting's engagement in THE LAST SHIP on Broadway has been extended through January 24, 2015, the musical's producers Jeffrey Seller and Kathryn Schenker announced. Originally scheduled to perform with the cast for five weeks, Sting will now appear for an additional two weeks in the role of Jackie White in THE LAST SHIP at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 W. 52 St.). (more...)

Let's address one thing, if you are a resident of Mystic Falls ambiguously aged between 18-27, you should be getting on your knees and thanking the heavens that your parents are alive. It's much more shocking to have living relatives in a town of 5 people. Unfortunately for our favorite gang of vampires, witches, and supernatural beings galore, any death or terminal illness of a parent or relative is a heartbreaking shock that can only be remedied with bourbon and decorating Christmas tress. (more...)